**spoiler alert** This book fooled me. The premise seemed sweet and dramatic....then after Adele died and Tegan went to live with Kamryn, it degenerat**spoiler alert** This book fooled me. The premise seemed sweet and dramatic....then after Adele died and Tegan went to live with Kamryn, it degenerated into a goofy romance/over done-Bridget Jones typical storyline of British singles in the big city, side-stepping one another around the workplace. I tolerated it until the book was half-read, and then it ended up in the "finished/gave up on" bag in my closet, destined for donation. It seemed to me that the touching story of Tegan's adjustment without her mum was very nearly lost in the silliness of Kamryn's unfounded, paranoid hatred of her new boss, the handsome and clearly-interested Luke. The book just lost me. It had good critical reviews, so perhaps I am just tired of the chick-lit phenomenon...but I couldn't finish it....more

This is might be the slowest, most pointless book I have ever read....I got to 70% on my Kindle and then decided to read reviews to see if everyone e This is might be the slowest, most pointless book I have ever read....I got to 70% on my Kindle and then decided to read reviews to see if everyone else struggled with it as I have. I see that nothing ever comes of the two storylines I was interested in, that of the young teen girl with a crush on her cousin and a missing convenience store clerk, so I am not wasting any more of my life on this book. Onwards....

Edited to add: Ok, I ended up finishing it. Boring and pointless. Nothing more than a character study of people within a family and their interpersonal relationships. No climax, no plot, no nothing.No conflict was solved....and everything was left hanging....more